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Richard Cusack

How Nottingham Forest & VfL Wolfsburg got fans talking amid coronavirus suspension

Nottingham Forest's official Twitter account has joined the Connect Four party taking place online as clubs work out how to fill the void left by the suspension of matches.

The English Football League (EFL) announced on Friday that games have been postponed because of the coronavirus.

Forest, in fifth place in the Championship with nine games left to go this season, have seen their matches against Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town and Bristol City called off.

There are very real fears that the season might not resume until well after the April 3 date penciled in by the League, with the campaign potentially set to carry on into the summer.

So without the busy end to the season clubs are working out how to engage with fans - with some brilliant responses.

Manchester City and Southampton took on each other in a game of Tic-tac-toe yesterday on the first day of the suspension and now Connect Four is the game being played by clubs online as they try and pass the time usually filled by matchday.

Now Forest have got involved, playing a tense game of Connect Four with Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg, whose matches have also been called off.

And fans have reacted to the brilliant idea on social media...

@AdamEdw: Great game going on here. Why no coverage on @SkySportsNews?

@superry82: Come on you redddsss #nffc

@mendocyoung: 12 minutes since #nffc ‘S move. Time wasting to @vflwolfsburg_us

@06allenn: How are we coping with no football? Answers here

@zakfretwell95: I’m calling a 90th minute winning Lolley

@MichaeAndrew1: Official football club twitter account connect 4 is the only positive news this week has brought us

@dan_nbry: This is painfully slow from Wolfsburg

@Richwhitty63: Connect 4 is coming home.....If this goes to a pen shoot out I am done!! Let's do this

@woolly80: Funny as hell that even in this inter club connect4, we are abiding by Sabriball and holding out to hit our German friends with a quick counter to win 1 0

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